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19 de ago. de 2022 · No other violinist in history has held as much influence and power over the way the instrument is played. Compositions, legendary performances, and even a lavish biopic starring David Garrett - what a legacy.
- James Ehnes (b. 1976), Canadian
- Kyung-Wha Chung (b. 1948), South Korean
- Hilary Hahn (b. 1979), American
- Gidon Kremer (b. 1947), Latvian
- Janine Jansen (b. 1978), Dutch
- Isaac Stern (1920-2001), American
- Pablo de Sarasate (1844-1908), Spanish
- Joseph Joachim (1831-1907), Hungarian
- Nicola Benedetti (b. 1987), Scottish-Italian
- Nathan Milstein (1903-92), Russian-American
The son of a trumpet player and ballerina, Ehnes, in 1988, became the youngest-ever winner in the string section of the Canadian Music Festival; some 19 years later he was the youngest person ever elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. After studies in his native country and at the Juilliard, he began his international career with playing...
The middle child of seven, four of whom would become professional musicians, Chung made her New York debut in 1968 after studies at the Juilliard. Standing in for Itzhak Perlman with the London Symphony Orchestra in 1970 led to a contract with Decca and a highly acclaimed recording of the Tchaikovskyand Sibelius concertos under André Previn. Though...
The astonishing Hahn, one of the greatest violinists, first picked up a violin just before her fourth birthday and was admitted to the Curtis Institute aged ten. Her three main teachers represented three different violin schools (Franco-Belgian, German and USA) making her particularly stylishly adept whether in Mozart, the Romantic repertoire or ne...
Both the father and grandfather of the multi-award-winning Kremer were violinists. He studied with David Oistrakh in Moscow, winning the 1970 International Tchaikovsky Competition. An energetic and enterprising entrepreneur (he founded the festival Kremerata Musica), he is renowned for his championship of new music, contemporary and forgotten works...
Jansen, one of the greatest violinists of her generation, comes from a family of musicians. Indeed, on her much-discussed recording of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons(2004), played with one player per string part, her father provided continuo and her brother the cello. As early as 2006 she was one of the most streamed classical artists. To date her albu...
The much-lauded icon of the violin was born to a Jewish family in Kremenets (then in Poland, now Ukraine) but the family moved to San Francisco when he was 14 months old. His mother gave him his first piano lessons when he was six and he entered the San Francisco Conservatory at the age of eight. During his long international career he recorded ove...
The most popular violinist in the latter half of the nineteenth century, Sarasate was a flamboyant virtuoso in the Paganini mould. His Carmen Fantasy and Zigeunerweisen are standard repertoire, the latter recorded nearly 250 times including by Sarasate himself in 1904 with eight other titles. Among the many important works dedicated to him were Wie...
Joachim, one of the greatest violinists, can be seen as the very antithesis of Sarasate – profound, steeped in the traditions of the German school, conservative, unshowy and serious. His teacher had played Beethoven’s late quartets in the presence of the composer. Joachim’s performances of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto were legendary, while the Joach...
Benedetti, one of the best violinists, was catapulted to national attention when she won the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in 2004 at the age of 16. For this, she played Szymanowski’s unfamiliar Violin Concerto No. 1 (which she recorded in 2005) heralding a discography that today imaginatively mixes standard repertoire (Mendelssohn, Br...
Milstein was one of the great Russian-Jewish players of the last century who studied with Leopold Auer (in fact, he was probably his last surviving pupil), a classmate of Heifetz and who played Glazunov’s concerto as a student under the baton of the composer. It was in this work that he made his US debut (under Stokowski) in 1929. Having become an ...
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3 de dic. de 2022 · Who is the most famous violinist in the world? Top 30 greatest violinist of all time: Paganini, Sarasate, Auer, Kreisler, Jascha Heifetz, Hilary Hahn and more: Violin Lessons
We asked 100 leading violinists to nominate their favourite peers, and came up with this list of the greatest violinists ever
19 de dic. de 2023 · In this article, we’ll discuss the 27 best violinists of all time and their contributions to the world of music. 1. David Oistrakh. Easily considered the preeminent violinist of the 20th century, David Oistrakh was a Soviet violinist and conductor who had numerous violin works dedicated to him.
1 de ago. de 2021 · 1) Niccolo Paganini. Born on October 27, 1782, in Genoa, Italy, Niccolo Paganini is widely accepted as one of the most influential and prodigious musicians to ever touch the violin. He revolutionized and laid the foundations for the modern violin technique through his use of the many string techniques used today such as bow bounces and harmonics.
Itzhak Perlman is considered the most famous violinist today. He has been in the public eye since 1958 when he performed on the Ed Sullivan Show. Since then, he has appeared with the top orchestras around the world, he’s played for Queen Elizabeth II, and has played violin solos on movie soundtracks.
